New Delhi: Sheer apathy by some of Delhi's biggest hospitals has led to the death of a one-day-old baby. The infant was reportedly born prematurely in a nursing home and immediately required ventilator support.
As the infant's parents could not afford private healthcare so they were referred to a government hospital but two government hospitals - Manohar Lohia and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital - allegedly refused admission to the child, citing shortage of beds.
The ambulance was running low on oxygen as a result of which the child died while being taken to a third hospital.
"They told us that there is very less chance that the newborn would survive. So they asked us to shift the baby to other hospital since they did not have the required facility. The government hospitals also did not help. By the time a doctor checked the new born, the new born had already died," says a relative of the infant Shanti Swaroop.
Delhi government has sought a reply from Kalavati, LNJP and RML Hospital.
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